Another View: In gun debate, one side isn't trying

Another View

12:50 AM,
Jan. 15, 2014

DANA SUMMERS/TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY

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Leonard Pitts Jr.

Here is what he said: "... all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be."

It would seem to be a self-evident truth. After all, your First Amendment right to freedom of speech is regulated. If you don't believe it, write something libelous about a guy with deep pockets and man-eating lawyers. Your Fourth Amendment right to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures is regulated and then some. If you don't believe that, pick up your phone and ask the NSA agent tapping your line.

Unfortunately for him, Dick Metcalf, who made the aforementioned observation, was ...